(Indian) PM's daughter on Obama

14 May 2009, 1511 hrs IST

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's New York-based daughter Amrit Singh, has criticised US president Barack Obama for his decision to block the court ordered release of photos of detainee abuse by US troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and several other prisions ...

Singh protested vociferously against Obama's decision calling it a mockery of transparency ...

Singh, who had argued the case successfully before the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York at the time, had said that releasing these photographs was "critical for helping the public understand the scope and scale of prisoner abuse as well as for holding senior officials accountable for authorising or permitting such abuse.

http://www.timesnow.tv/PMs-daughter-on-Obama/articleshow/4316554.cms

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Amrit Singh is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, where she has litigated cases relating to the use of diplomatic assurances to return individuals to countries known to employ torture ... Amrit has worked on a number of issues concerning the treatment of post 9/11 detainees held in U.S. custody abroad. She is counsel in ACLU v. Dep’t of Defense, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that has sought to uncover records related to the torture of detainees held in U.S. custody abroad; and Ali v. Rumsfeld, a lawsuit brought against senior U.S. government officials on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan detainees who were tortured in U.S. custody ... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amrit-singh